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    "content": "Mr. Temporary Speaker, Sir, for this Senate not to be taken for granted and; more than any other action that we have taken in any other Motion, I think that this is really the first time that we are demonstrating that it will no longer be business as usual. At the end of the day, we must audit every report that comes to us. I do not want to talk about Sen. G.G Kariuki a lot, but I know that in our Committee on Implementation, if you are in a meeting in which documents are brought before he has read them, then he will not be prepared to discuss those particular documents. So, sometimes, reports are brought to us and we come to the Plenary when we have not read them. We, therefore, end up passing things that we later on live to regret. Mr. Temporary Speaker, Sir, in this particular instance, we have gone the extra mile to make sure that, not only in terms of the Committees, but also the constitutional bodies, things are done the right way. We are telling even our Committees, including the Committees that I belong to, that the Plenary is not going to accept any reports that do not show that you have done what we are required to do. It is not just about holding meetings in the Coast or Kisumu, getting our allowances and then, assuming that we have done a good job. I think that the Senate is showing that it is a House of depth and tremendous commitment, when it comes to consideration of business before it. Mr. Temporary Speaker, Sir, if this amendment is approved, then it will require the Committee to do a thorough job, but also act very expeditiously because the consequences of not having a report and making the appropriate recommendations, particularly to the Office of the Controller of Budget, may make the people of Turkana suffer for sins that are not their own."
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